He was pleased to adopt Pound's nickname for him, the Possum, and the too-correctness was a way of suggesting that the umbrella fetish, the cheese-course rituals, the white flower (for York) that he wore on the anniversary of the Battle of Bosworth Field, where Richard III was killed, and all the rest of the bowler-hatted persona might be a put-on.
TLA+, Lamport noted, allows you to do the high-level design of a system in a completely formal way — and because it's done formally, it can be checked for correctness, too (and to be fair, AWS and others also use TLA+ to spec out their distributed systems).
TLA+ has been wonderful in getting that level of rigor in a team of engineers to set the bar high for quality". TLA+, Lamport noted, allows you to do the high-level design of a system in a completely formal way — and because it's done formally, it can be checked for correctness, too (and to be fair, AWS and others also use TLA+ to spec out their distributed systems).
Too much political correctness, too much euphemism, and they risk seeming indistinguishable from the establishment.
Fear and, too often, political correctness are the cause of so much misunderstanding.
While some may find "Rethinking Political Correctness" too fuzzy, others will come away feeling less frightened of dialogue with co-workers of different ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Six has said he prefers horror films that are more realistic over "unbelievable" monster films, and said that he gets "a rash from too much political correctness".
This isn't about "PC culture" It's increasingly common to write off a marginalized group's valid concerns as too much political correctness.
After planned performances by an amateur opera company in Middlesbrough, England were "stopped because [they] would be 'distasteful' to ethnic minorities", a local newspaper declared that the actions were "surely taking political correctness too far".
Has political correctness gone too far?
He cares too much about political correctness and too little about common decency.
